2009/1/15 Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Rob OpenSuSE
The linux kernel team "kernel hacker" use all kinds of distro's not just SuSE, and as Greg KH said
This is an openSUSE mailing list. I'm not talking about all kinds of other distros. Although if I was I'd note that a bunch of them do use squashfs for initrd (and root filesystems unioned under hard disks)
Ignoring other distributions, and current work in progress is not going to benefit the discussion.
It's only Fedora and Debian which don't but this is most of a factor
Their needs are going to be a consideration in a joint project.
If you loop mount a squashfs kernel, too, you don't need any special tools to extract files from it - this is how the LiveCD installers work. You just copy the files to the target.
That feature is a user benefit, that will IMO ease support in cases similar to problem I found.
So the questions he asked, wanting numbers matter, as does that objection, the advocates of change need to be provide evidence.
There are end user benefits to mountable initrd's, and would have been a much better workround for one bug, than what I actually had to do.
I don't think mountable initrds is the point (there are very few situations where you need to mount it), it's the CONSOLIDATION of cpio/squashfs as currently used in initrd/roots on the LiveCDs and potentially the DVD images for the standard installation, to use a single build system and a single (loop mountable) filesystem which offers several benefits.
You're simply not paying attention to what is going on in the discussion. I don't know why you are talking about "sysadmin problems", because you never qualified it. Or mountable initrds (I was talking about the fact that the installer ALREADY uses squashfs files INSIDE cpio initrds). They aren't the plus points I'm trying to push here
That's rich. I actually emailed in a request relating out of a specific bug report. The exact details are not particularly relevant to the discussion, just supporting the support benefits of being able to fix up, initrd's conveniently rather than suffer the consequences, of mkinitrd utilising the currently booted system. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org